Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting led the Ming army in the east and south to join the division and the 21st fortress of Tsarist Russia, the Tsarist defenders surrendered under the pressure of a million-strong army, and the Great War in Siberia came to an end, and the Ming army completed its strategic goal nearly two months ahead of schedule, and the next thing was to organize defense and build railways.

For this reason, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting specially found a clean and tidy room in the fortress, set up a large table, and spread out the map of the Siberian Plain on the table to discuss.

The defense problem along the railway line was not very big, because there happened to be eight fortresses built by Tsarist Russia along the way, and Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting combined to build a sub-city that could garrison tens of thousands of people on the periphery of the fort, and repaired the railway station inside the sub-city, and then divided the Third Army Corps of the border guards, and stationed more than 10,000 people in each fort.

Sun Chuanting led the Qin Army, the First Army of the Frontier Army, and the Second Army of the Border Army, first escorting the army of the vassal state to repair the railway, and then returning to Rem City to station.

In this way, no matter which fortress Tsarist Russia attacked, with the fast communication method of telegraph and the fast transportation capacity of the railway line, Sun Chuanting would soon be able to lead the army to arrive, and Tsarist Russia would not want to recapture these eight forts even if it poured out.

As long as the eight forts are not lost, the Ming army will be able to use the forts as a base to spread the scouts to the entire railway line, preventing Tsarist Russia from sending people to sabotage the railway, so that the entire railway will be safe.

There is no problem with the defense along the railway, but there is a slight deviation in the construction of the railway, because according to the calculations of Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, it will take about half a month to build the railway from the No. 21 fortress to the main trunk of the Ye Ni River, and then it will take about a month to build a bridge on the Ye Ni River, and then it will take about half a month to build a bridge on the Tunguska River to connect the Western Regions Railway with the Trans-Siberian Railway.

In this way, until the ice period comes this year, the Western Regions Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway will not be connected, and they guess that the emperor should have missed the time to repair the bridge!

It is a trivial matter for the emperor to calculate the missing time, but if Sun Chuanting did not connect the Western Regions Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway before the ice period this year, it will be a big deal, and they also know that it is time-consuming and laborious to transfer materials from Liaodong to Siberia, which has brought huge pressure to the railway transportation of the entire Ming Dynasty, and the two hundred trains delayed on the road alone do not know how much loss will be caused to the Ming Dynasty, and even if the railway is not repaired this year, it is very likely to affect the strategic deployment of the coming year, which Sun Chuanting can not afford. Lu Xiangsheng can't afford it.

What to do? In the end, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting had to take a telegram to the capital jointly, one to report the good news to the emperor that the eight fortresses had been taken in advance, and the other to ask the emperor, should the bridge above the Yeni River and the Tunguska River be repaired?

On this day, Zhu Cijiong was accompanying his eldest son Zhu Hetou to tease foodies in Kunning Palace, but Wang Chengen suddenly ran over, holding a telegram with both hands, kneeling on the ground and screaming: "Your Majesty, the Siberian front is urgent." “

Didn't I hear that things were going well over there a few days ago, so why did you come to report it urgently?

The things on the front line could not be delayed, Zhu Cijiong immediately left his son, took the telegram and looked at it carefully.

The first half of the telegram was that the Ming army on the east road and the Ming army on the south road had successfully taken eight fortresses, and Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting had successfully joined forces at the 21st fortress of Tsarist Russia....... “

But before he was halfway there, he suddenly choked, for the second half of the message was asking him to send someone to build bridges over the Yeni and Tunguska rivers.

He is so embarrassed, when he was planning on the map, he didn't think of the problem of building a bridge at all, the Yeni River and the Tunguska River are not small rivers, and it is not good to build a bridge on it without a month, so it will take at least three months for Sun Chuanting to build the Western Regions Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway, and he only left him a month, doesn't this cost human life!

Fortunately, they knocked down the eight fortresses in advance, otherwise it would have been a bit difficult to bring down the Western Regions Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway this year.

Thinking of this, he said to Wang Chengen, who was kneeling there waiting for instructions: "Call back, ask Sun Chuanting to divide the army of the vassal state into two, and build the railroad from the 21st Fortress to the main trunk of the Ye Ni River and the main trunk of the Ye Ni River to Tunguska City, and then tell him that I will have the two bridges repaired within two months." “

Wang Chengen took the order and left, Zhu Cijiong thought about it, walked directly to the door, and said to Cao Huachun, who was standing there: "Let someone inform Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to come to the study of the Qianqing Palace quickly." “

After that, he raised his feet and walked in the direction of Qianqing Palace, Cao Huachun glanced at a small eunuch next to him, and then followed Zhu Cijiong to Qianqing Palace.

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty did not know how many railways had been built, and often had to pass through some big rivers, and naturally had already been familiar with the construction of railway bridges.

After Bi Maokang returned, he immediately organized a meeting of officials above the head of the Ministry of Industry to arrange the construction of the two bridges.

He directly divided the relevant officials of the Dushui Qing Officials Division into two waves, one group took the relevant bridge experts to be responsible for making the bridge piers, prepared the necessary materials and immediately set off to set off to the Yeni River and the Tunguska River to erect bridge piers; The other wave took relevant bridge experts to be responsible for the bridge and bridge deck, first cooperated with Daming Royal Machinery Group to prepare the bridge materials, and then unified the Ye Ni River and the Tunguska River.

Because Zhu Cijiong attaches great importance to the relationship between technology, the officials of the Ministry of Industry are all first-class and capable, and the efficiency is simply terrifying.

The next day, the officials in charge of the bridge piers had already prepared cement, steel bars and other materials, transported them directly to Dongdaying, loaded all the materials onto the fleet of the Daming Royal Shipping Company, which was responsible for transporting materials, and then rushed to the Yeni River and the Tunguska River bridge piers.

On the same day, the officials in charge of the bridge and the bridge deck took the relevant bridge experts directly into the steel plant of Daming Royal Machinery Group in Beijing, and with the cooperation of the relevant personnel of the steel plant, they rushed to produce bridge materials day and night.

Half a month later, all the materials for the bridge were ready, and they also transported all the materials directly to Dongdaying, loaded onto the fleet of the Daming Royal Shipping Company, which was responsible for transshipment of materials, and then rushed to the Yeni River and the Tunguska River with the ship.

At this time, the bridge piers on the two rivers have almost been erected, and the railways on both sides have almost been built, just waiting for the bridge and road surface to be repaired, you can dock, and the Western Regions Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway are just around the corner!